Snowflake Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Snowflake Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Snowflake Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 367 423
Rank change year-on-year +34 +56 +90
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Data Engineer 23 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.078% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.085% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 4
10th Percentile £358 £453 -
25th Percentile £409 £464 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +13.33% -33.33%
75th Percentile £534 £613 £528
90th Percentile £605 £625 £556
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,655 17,644 21,311
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.09% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,395 10,794 14,496
10th Percentile £218 £214 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,181 1,928 1,177
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.49 £13.98
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +8.59% +85.92%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £43.32
% change year-on-year -40.16% -2.97% +68.67%

Snowflake Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Snowflake Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Snowflake Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Snowflake Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Snowflake Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake Data Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +44 8 £500 -13.04%
Scotland -5 5 £475 +4.86%
South East - 5 £400 - 2
Midlands -5 4 £420 -13.85% 1
West Midlands 0 2 £418 -14.36% 1
East Midlands -4 2 £420 -
East of England +9 1 - -
Snowflake Data Engineer
UK

Snowflake Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 July 2025, Snowflake Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Snowflake Data Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (95.65%) Snowflake
2 13 (56.52%) Python
2 13 (56.52%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (56.52%) AWS
3 10 (43.48%) SQL
4 9 (39.13%) ETL
4 9 (39.13%) Matillion
5 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
5 7 (30.43%) Azure
5 7 (30.43%) Analytics
6 6 (26.09%) Data Engineering
6 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
7 5 (21.74%) GCP
7 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (17.39%) Migration
9 3 (13.04%) Data Security
9 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (13.04%) Bash
9 3 (13.04%) Marketing
9 3 (13.04%) Project Planning
9 3 (13.04%) Business Development
9 3 (13.04%) Data Integration
9 3 (13.04%) HIPAA
9 3 (13.04%) Data Migration
9 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
9 3 (13.04%) GDPR

Snowflake Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) Snowflake
2 13 (56.52%) AWS
3 9 (39.13%) Matillion
4 7 (30.43%) Azure
5 5 (21.74%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) Collibra
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (4.35%) Big Data
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 3 (13.04%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (13.04%) Marketing
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Retail
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) Advertising
3 1 (4.35%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) ETL
2 7 (30.43%) Analytics
2 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
2 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Data Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (17.39%) Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Business Development
6 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (13.04%) Data Integration
6 3 (13.04%) Data Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Data Security
6 3 (13.04%) Data Strategy
6 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
6 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (13.04%) Project Planning
6 3 (13.04%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
1 3 (13.04%) HIPAA
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Virgin Media